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republicans, john mccain and lindsey graham and others pushing very, very hard now, getting very vicious in their rhetoric toward ambassador rice and so on. what do you think, at the central plank of this do you believe ambassador rice is at fault or is she as barack obama said, she was merely passion on -- passing on intelligence? she was not a key player in all of this, therefore, if he wants to make her secretary of state, he can do it. what do you think? >> first of all, i was substituting for george stephanopoulos that sunday as host of "this week." we were trying to get secretary of state hillary clinton, all of the shows were trying to get secretary of state hillary clinton to talk about benghazi. for whatever reason, she accident go out them put out dr. susan rice are the u.n. ambassador. very interesting that today, president obama says, you know, susan rice had nothing to do with benghazi, i don't know what she was doing on the show. >> didn't she make her safe key player or a person put up by the administration to launch the defense. she could have said, we believe there are a
republicans, john mccain and lindsey graham and others pushing very, very hard now, getting very vicious in their rhetoric toward ambassador rice and so on. what do you think, at the central plank of this do you believe ambassador rice is at fault or is she as barack obama said, she was merely passion on -- passing on intelligence? she was not a key player in all of this, therefore, if he wants to make her secretary of state, he can do it. what do you think? >> first of all, i was...
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. >> let me remind you that john mccain and rudy giuliani are quite the same. >> good point. >> and they are very successful politicians. >> let me turn to you and politics. what do you think is the current political malaise and the almost constant dead lock that doesn't achieve anything for the country? >> well, i think we have to start to enter a phase of compromise and reconciliation because with single digit approval ratings with the house and the senate and all this stuff that's been going on wall street for the last -- you know, far beyond ten years but now they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, things need to change. otherwise i think -- people are going to -- i think we're a lot closer to people taking it to the street. >> are you an obama supporter? >> most definitely i am. i would most definitely like to see him elected. you know, i'm not somebody that will work for or support mitt romney. but i will say that i am disappointed in a number of ways and on a number of levels with the performance of the president. >> tell me where and why. >> well, i think environmental
. >> let me remind you that john mccain and rudy giuliani are quite the same. >> good point. >> and they are very successful politicians. >> let me turn to you and politics. what do you think is the current political malaise and the almost constant dead lock that doesn't achieve anything for the country? >> well, i think we have to start to enter a phase of compromise and reconciliation because with single digit approval ratings with the house and the senate and...
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a second general today, petraeus' successor in afghanistan, general john allen, a marine corps four star general, current nominee to be the new nato supreme allied commander, so a very big fish indeed in the military. he is apparently at the center of a scandal involving 30,000 documents, all pages or e-mails or whatever that he exchanged with this second woman, the other other woman, jill kelley. what do we know about the content of this? because it's not as simple as simply 30,000 e-mails, right? >> well, that's the real question. what's really involved here. the spin machine is in full cycle on this one. the pentagon says it's about 30,000 pages of documents. they may not all be e-mails, but a good portion of them are e-mails between allen and jill kelley. pentagon official telling reporters today in his words, they may have been inappropriately flirtatious. what does that mean? well, the word on the street is that he might have written some of these e-mails and maybe in some cases called her sweetheart. nothing more meant by it, we're told, than he's a virginia gentleman but, and it'
a second general today, petraeus' successor in afghanistan, general john allen, a marine corps four star general, current nominee to be the new nato supreme allied commander, so a very big fish indeed in the military. he is apparently at the center of a scandal involving 30,000 documents, all pages or e-mails or whatever that he exchanged with this second woman, the other other woman, jill kelley. what do we know about the content of this? because it's not as simple as simply 30,000 e-mails,...
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>> that's richard belzer in his role as detective john munch on nbc's "law and order, special victims unit." here with his new book. belzer claims it's all true. the book is titled "dead wrong," straight facts on the country's most controversial cover-ups. richard belzer joins me now. welcome. >> thank you, appreciate you having me on. this is a world exclusive and i couldn't think of a better show to be on. >> well, thank you very much. i'm a huge fan of "law and order" so it's a big thrill for me too. >> come on the show, i'll arrest you. >> that would make you very, very popular back in my home country. >> i'll be gentle. >> trust me. "dead wrong, straight facts on the country's most controversial cover-ups." you go through in extraordinary detail a lot of the most famous high-profile deaths, killings, so on, in modern american history. the running theme really is the american people have been the victim of cover-up after cover-up. how much of that do you personally believe is completely true? is it? or is the purpose of the book to put out enough doubt to make people just question
>> that's richard belzer in his role as detective john munch on nbc's "law and order, special victims unit." here with his new book. belzer claims it's all true. the book is titled "dead wrong," straight facts on the country's most controversial cover-ups. richard belzer joins me now. welcome. >> thank you, appreciate you having me on. this is a world exclusive and i couldn't think of a better show to be on. >> well, thank you very much. i'm a huge fan of...
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just like john kennedy was able to talk to kruschev. if we can talk to him with 30,000 missiles why can't we talk to a country without a nuclear weapon and not on the verge of it either according to the record. >> a lot of americans may like you personally or whatever. but they think you are weak on this because of the preemptive issue. i come back to the question. if you had prior knowledge as president of pearl harbor would you have attacked? >> imminent attack if the planes are coming, yes. >> intelligence it may happen. >> an imminent attack is different when the planes are coming versus fiction. we shouldn't have such short memories. everything they are saying about iran we said about iraq and they were lies. how many men died? 8,500 americans died. 44,000 in tripoli. >> coming back to you on iraq -- >> it's the same principle. >> i opposed the war in iraq vigorously and loudly. >> you should oppose us going into iran then. >> i think iran is different. >> why? >> because i think they would if they could consider attacking israel.
just like john kennedy was able to talk to kruschev. if we can talk to him with 30,000 missiles why can't we talk to a country without a nuclear weapon and not on the verge of it either according to the record. >> a lot of americans may like you personally or whatever. but they think you are weak on this because of the preemptive issue. i come back to the question. if you had prior knowledge as president of pearl harbor would you have attacked? >> imminent attack if the planes are...
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that's what john sununu didn't want people debating, in my view. i think he quite deliberately played that race card to change the thinking of people who may be in two minds about who to vote for, you know what, this is actually about a black man voting for a black man. >> if it was an intentional dismissal, using race in that way, it just heightens the level of sinisterness of such a comment and it belies in many ways the truth of who colin powell is. >> let's play a clip from president obama today. this is what he said about it. >> any suggestion that general powell would make such a profound statement in such an important election based on anything other than what he thought was what's going to be best for america i think doesn't make much sense. >> sununu issued a statement afterwards which i found fairly laughable. colin powell's a friend, i respect the endorsement decision he made. i do not doubt it was based on anything but his support of the president's policies. piers morgan's question was whether colin powell should leave the party and i
that's what john sununu didn't want people debating, in my view. i think he quite deliberately played that race card to change the thinking of people who may be in two minds about who to vote for, you know what, this is actually about a black man voting for a black man. >> if it was an intentional dismissal, using race in that way, it just heightens the level of sinisterness of such a comment and it belies in many ways the truth of who colin powell is. >> let's play a clip from...
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. >> senator john kerry on stage tonight. now back to president obama's speech. >> i don't know what party these men and women belong to. i don't know if they'll vote for me. but i know their spirit defines us. they remind me in the words of scripture that ours is a future filled with hope. and if you share that faith with me, if you share that hope with me, i ask you tonight for your vote. if you reject the notion that this nation's promise is reserved for the few, your voice must be heard in this election. if you reject the notion that our government is forever beholden to the highest bidder, you need to stand up in this election. if you believe that new plants and factories can dot our landscape, that new energy can power our future, that new schools can provide ladders of opportunity to this nation of dreamers, if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules, then i need you to vote this november. [ cheers and applause ] america, i never s
. >> senator john kerry on stage tonight. now back to president obama's speech. >> i don't know what party these men and women belong to. i don't know if they'll vote for me. but i know their spirit defines us. they remind me in the words of scripture that ours is a future filled with hope. and if you share that faith with me, if you share that hope with me, i ask you tonight for your vote. if you reject the notion that this nation's promise is reserved for the few, your voice must...
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what does john smith stand for? and if -- because right now rksz when you go into vote, if you're a conservativconservative, you to know any names. all you need to do is look for republican. if you're liberal, all you need to do is look for democrat. you don't engineering need to know the name of the candidate. >> this all sounds great in theory. of course, the reality of the kind of american government you're looking for here, is you would end up with a whole falex of desperate souls, all with different ideas, all with different kinds of policies. how does that actually work? in reality, jesse. be sensible. be realistic. how does that work? >> read chapter 2. >> i've read it all. >> okay. who backs me up in chapter 2? george washington, the father of our country. thomas jefferson, looked up to by many today and john adams, who actually stated that when political parties take control of the government, that's what will destroy it. it won't be a force from outside. it will come within. and i think those are three pre
what does john smith stand for? and if -- because right now rksz when you go into vote, if you're a conservativconservative, you to know any names. all you need to do is look for republican. if you're liberal, all you need to do is look for democrat. you don't engineering need to know the name of the candidate. >> this all sounds great in theory. of course, the reality of the kind of american government you're looking for here, is you would end up with a whole falex of desperate souls,...
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trying to defend openness and willing to stop a war just -- please let me finish my sentence just like john kennedy was able to talk to crushp. why can't we talk to a country that doesn't have a nuclear missile. >> a lot of americans who may like you personally. they think you're weak on this because of the preemptive issue. if you had knowledge and you were president when pearl harbor happened, would you have attacked japan? >> imminent attack, we are seeing the planes come over, yes. >> intelligence it may happen. >> it is quite different when the planes are coming versus this fiction. we shouldn't have such short memories. everything they are saying about iran were said about iraq and they were all lies. this is the same principle. >> i opposed the war in iraq vigorously and loudly. >> then you should oppose us going into iran. >> i think iran is a different situation because i think they would if they could consider attacking israel. if you are america you can't let that happen and the israelis are looking to america. >> why shouldn't they depend on the british? why don't the british ta
trying to defend openness and willing to stop a war just -- please let me finish my sentence just like john kennedy was able to talk to crushp. why can't we talk to a country that doesn't have a nuclear missile. >> a lot of americans who may like you personally. they think you're weak on this because of the preemptive issue. if you had knowledge and you were president when pearl harbor happened, would you have attacked japan? >> imminent attack, we are seeing the planes come over,...
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john garfield. when i was 9 years old. i played john as a boy. and i had a very difficult scene to play. and i couldn't pull it off. i couldn't pull it off. and john garfield cleared the room and he got the scene out of me. and he said, robert, remember this for the rest of your life. your life is a rehearsal. your performance is real. and there's nobody that can say that more truthfully than me. i have found an audience when i was 2 years old and they never left me. no matter what the cops did. no matter what you say. no matter what your friends on the internet say. >> they're not friends. >> they've never, ever, ever left me. everybody else did. family, friends, you name it. they all jumped [ bleep ] ship. but not the fans. and i'm grateful for that. >> next, robert blake and the hollywood friends who stood by his side or rather didn't. and what he said was the greatest moment of his life. [ female announcer ] the coffee house. the lines, the cost, the hassle. ♪ express yourself [ female announcer ] why not try coffee-mate? with over 25 delic
john garfield. when i was 9 years old. i played john as a boy. and i had a very difficult scene to play. and i couldn't pull it off. i couldn't pull it off. and john garfield cleared the room and he got the scene out of me. and he said, robert, remember this for the rest of your life. your life is a rehearsal. your performance is real. and there's nobody that can say that more truthfully than me. i have found an audience when i was 2 years old and they never left me. no matter what the cops...
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>> please, with just like john kennedy was able to talk to khrushchev. if we could talk to khrushchev and he had 30,000 missiles, why can't we talk to a country that doesn't have a nuclear missile -- >> but a lot of americans who may like, they may like you personally or whatever, but they think you're weak on this, because of the preemptive issue. and i come back to that question i put to you. if you had knowledge and you were president when pearl harbor happened, you had pre-knowledge of that happening, would you have attacked japan? >> an imminent attack, we're coming over and seeing the planes come over, obviously. >> but the intelligence it may happen. >> an imminent attack is quite different when the planes are coming versus this fiction. just, we shouldn't have such short memories. everything they're saying about iran, we said about iraq, and they were all lies. and how many men died? 8,500 americans died. 44,000 -- >> i agree with you about iraq. i, as a newspaper editor, as a newspaper editor back in britain, i opposed the war in iraq, vigorousl
>> please, with just like john kennedy was able to talk to khrushchev. if we could talk to khrushchev and he had 30,000 missiles, why can't we talk to a country that doesn't have a nuclear missile -- >> but a lot of americans who may like, they may like you personally or whatever, but they think you're weak on this, because of the preemptive issue. and i come back to that question i put to you. if you had knowledge and you were president when pearl harbor happened, you had...
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joining me is john miller, former assistant director of the fbi. john, welcome. what do you make of this? tell me about the relationship here in the scandal between the fbi and the cia. many people are saying what on earth is going on. fbi investigating some weird complaint from a woman about getting some dodgy e-mails. how has that led to a fu full-fledged investigation that brings down the cia director? >> you couldn't have made this story up. >> you really couldn't. >> it doesn't start that way. i mean, it starts in the strangest way, because you have a woman who has these harassing e-mails, a couple of which mention david petraeus, but they're not threatening to her, nor are they accusing anyone of having an affair. so she has these annoying e-mails but they mention things that are personal information about her that she finds disturbing so she goes to an fbi agent she knows and she says can i get this investigated. and that agent brings her into the tampa field office and the tampa field office has a cybersquad that does criminal work, and they look at it an
joining me is john miller, former assistant director of the fbi. john, welcome. what do you make of this? tell me about the relationship here in the scandal between the fbi and the cia. many people are saying what on earth is going on. fbi investigating some weird complaint from a woman about getting some dodgy e-mails. how has that led to a fu full-fledged investigation that brings down the cia director? >> you couldn't have made this story up. >> you really couldn't. >> it...
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you hear first, roxana and then, john, you get a call. it must be a sense of disbelief and you realize she's been caught up in this horrific incident, gabrielle giffords has been shot, presumed dead, other people have been gunned down. what are you thinking when this is all unfurling? but day by day, you learn to cope. we have a deep faith in god and we prayed and that helped us. >> the husband of gabrielle giffords, a remarkable man in many ways. and he was saying how desperate he felt about these people losing their live. she would have been 10 in september. it's hard to reconcile. when you were first told that your daughter was dead, did you ask, did u you get the person that did this? did that give you any kind of comfort that they did? >> i don't know how natalee holloway's parents coped with not knowing. we knew exactly what happened to our daughter, it was tragic and we're still dealing with that today. but again, our faith and our family and our friends got us through the issue of losing a child. >> it's an incredibly powerful boo
you hear first, roxana and then, john, you get a call. it must be a sense of disbelief and you realize she's been caught up in this horrific incident, gabrielle giffords has been shot, presumed dead, other people have been gunned down. what are you thinking when this is all unfurling? but day by day, you learn to cope. we have a deep faith in god and we prayed and that helped us. >> the husband of gabrielle giffords, a remarkable man in many ways. and he was saying how desperate he felt...
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. >>> in depth with john mccain. >>> in depth with john mccain. i sat down with senator mccain a while ago in the armed services committee hearing room. he was very candid. he disagrees strongly with what justice scalia said about super pacs. about michele bachmann and what he thinks about romney's record at bain. senator, thank you for finally allowing me to interview you. you finally cracked. >> finally gave in, there you go. looking forward to it. >> so have i, very much. let's start with we're three months away from the election. you've been exactly where mitt romney is right now. what is your advice? what is the real strategy at this stage of the battle plan that you think he needs to be most aware of? >> i think it's very obvious, piers, and that's jobs and the economy. most people don't care when mitt romney left bain capital and went to run the olympics and save them or exactly where his tax returns are. so i think the focus obviously is what most americans are caring about now. we do have a very stumbling economy, that's the best descript
. >>> in depth with john mccain. >>> in depth with john mccain. i sat down with senator mccain a while ago in the armed services committee hearing room. he was very candid. he disagrees strongly with what justice scalia said about super pacs. about michele bachmann and what he thinks about romney's record at bain. senator, thank you for finally allowing me to interview you. you finally cracked. >> finally gave in, there you go. looking forward to it. >> so have i,...
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i think john boehner was very clear that everything is on the table with respect to revenue reductions -- revenue increases as well as spending reductions, but there are certain things that aren't. and i think what john boehner said is right, we should not be increasing tax rates on businesses in america. so i think you're going to look at it from the standpoint of can we tighten the tax code, limit deductions? there are things we can do to simplify the code that will result in more revenue because it will result in more growth. i think republicans absolutely should put those things on the table and revenue certainly should be part of the deal. >> some people are blaming you for mitt romney's failure, and i'll explain to you why. >> i wish i had such power here that i could be blamed for these things. >> allow me to elaborate. what they're saying is if he hadn't been pushed into fairly right wing quite extreme positions in his battle against the likes of you early this year for the public nominee race, then he wouldn't have gotten himself in this unholy mess of being branded against wo
i think john boehner was very clear that everything is on the table with respect to revenue reductions -- revenue increases as well as spending reductions, but there are certain things that aren't. and i think what john boehner said is right, we should not be increasing tax rates on businesses in america. so i think you're going to look at it from the standpoint of can we tighten the tax code, limit deductions? there are things we can do to simplify the code that will result in more revenue...
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i'll talk to senator john mccain in a minute. >>> in new york city, president obama meets with storm survivors where more than 25,000 households are still without power. more than two weeks after super storm sandy hit. >>> we begin with the big story. the latest on the benghazi hearings. joining me is pentagon correspondent barbara starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. welcome to you both. barbara, this is really fascinating me. so general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. it's basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia and that after that there was a stream of other intelligence saying it may be linked to the video we all knew about but his belief was always that it was this group and they had to rule out the other intelligence before they could officially confirm i
i'll talk to senator john mccain in a minute. >>> in new york city, president obama meets with storm survivors where more than 25,000 households are still without power. more than two weeks after super storm sandy hit. >>> we begin with the big story. the latest on the benghazi hearings. joining me is pentagon correspondent barbara starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. welcome to you both. barbara, this is really fascinating me. so general petraeus who has been...
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i wasn't john wayne mccain as some used to call me in my earlier days. and so i think it made me aware that all of us have -- our not failings but our vulnerabilities and sometimes we don't always do what we would like to do. but the point is, pick yourself up, as i did right after that, go right back into the arena with them. >> what has been the greatest moment of your life? if i could relive, outside marriage and children, if i could have the power to let you relieve five minutes of your live, what would you choose? >> probably the day i left prison. and i left with all of my comrades when i left. and earlier, a couple years earlier, they had offered me to go home early. i was so grateful i had not accepted that offer and left my comrades behind. >> pretty extraordinary. thank you for your service, senator. thank you for your interview. >> thank you, piers. >> great to meet you at last. don't keep me waiting so long next time. >> absolutely. >> you heard what john mccain said about syria. next, i'll ask a top commander general george casey if u.s. for
i wasn't john wayne mccain as some used to call me in my earlier days. and so i think it made me aware that all of us have -- our not failings but our vulnerabilities and sometimes we don't always do what we would like to do. but the point is, pick yourself up, as i did right after that, go right back into the arena with them. >> what has been the greatest moment of your life? if i could relive, outside marriage and children, if i could have the power to let you relieve five minutes of...
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john kerry didn't release his wife's tax returns. it has been a standard of behavior. and what, frankly, they worry about, okay release five years, why not ten, why not 15, on and on like that. so it is a decision that the romney campaign has it make. but to somehow say that he should do something that no other candidate in recent history has done, i think is patently unfair. >> just to clarify, you never saw anything that you think would cause him embarrassment. >> of course not. >> the implication, we know about swiss bank accounts, cayman islands, there is more stuff over time that would show he saved a lot of money through tax -- it not illegal, but through sharp tax practice. >> first of all, as i said, i saw nothing, or my team saw nothing, in any way that would be harmful. but the important point is that we now have a campaign based on his tax returns or not his tax returns. the obama campaign sunk so low that his deputy campaign manager, ms. cutter, says he may have committed a felony. i've got to tell you, i've not seen a presidential campaign where that campa
john kerry didn't release his wife's tax returns. it has been a standard of behavior. and what, frankly, they worry about, okay release five years, why not ten, why not 15, on and on like that. so it is a decision that the romney campaign has it make. but to somehow say that he should do something that no other candidate in recent history has done, i think is patently unfair. >> just to clarify, you never saw anything that you think would cause him embarrassment. >> of course not....